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1.On female collaborations within the frame of audience research: A Girls’ Eye View between changes, chances and challenges

Romana Andò and Danielle Hipkins Issue: Category: Collaborations

In this brief piece we discuss the role of collaboration in our research project, A Girls’ Eye View, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in the UK in 2021. The project is both the result and the ongoing story of multiple collaborations, mostly all-female collaborations, between academic scholars of different generations, schools, teachers, students, and female professionals in the field of Italian media productions. The main objective is to understand the relationship (if there is one) between Italian TV and cinema content and young female audiences.

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2.Osceno all’italiana: Tracce per una storia del concetto

Silvia Rodeschini Issue: Category: Themed Section

by Silvia Rodeschini

This article outlines the history of the idea of obscenity in Italian law and media governance provisions. Starting from the formulation of the articles concerning obscenity of the Italian penal code of the thirties, the analysis follows the shift in the meaning of modesty in the subsequent transformations of the rules governing the distribution of obscene material until the 2000s. This reconstruction tries to make explicit the idea of sexual pleasure and its dangers implicit in some juridical texts and to outline how norms try to situate adult content in specific spaces of consumption.

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3.Oltre le gambe c’è di più: Analisi del rapporto con la politica e il femminismo nei casi di Cicciolina, Moana Pozzi e Valentina Nappi

Sofia Torre Issue: Category: Themed Section

by Sofia Torre

This essay aims to read the relationship between pornographic obscenity and political communication strategies by investigating the cases of Ilona Staller, elected among the ranks of the Radical Party in 1987, and Moana Pozzi, who joined the Party of Love in 1992. Secondly, the essay’s purpose is to analyze the contemporary anti-feminist activism of Valentina Nappi on social networks.The analysis, carried out through the methodological criteria of political communication and media studies,

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4.“Pornoestetica” familiare: La parentela erotica in Rosario Gallardo

Roberto Paolo Malaspina Issue: Category: Themed Section

by Roberto Paolo Malaspina

This contribution focuses on the symbolic form of the family—as a topos and stereotype of Italian culture—investigating its intersections with sexuality, cinematic, and post-pornographic representations. Starting from the analysis of the disciplinary family in Foucault, this article shows, through the lens of queer and performative gender theories, the possibility of disorienting the normative status of the family and its cinematic representations.

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5.Exploring Italian Forbidden Imaginaries: Research on Porn Tubes Pornhub and XNXX

Gaia Peruzzi, Angela Spampinato Issue: Category: Themed Section

by Gaia Peruzzi and Angelica Spampinato

The advent of digital platforms has caused an unprecedented revolution in the world of pornography. Today pornographic platforms, or porn tubes, are the main containers of adult entertainment, making a huge variety of pornographies immediately accessible to largest audience. Porn tubes have changed both the production and the use of pornography, so much so that the entire hard industry has been forced to rethink its business by channeling it into the new medium. 

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6.La sessuopolitica del porno: L’hard di Silvio Bandinelli e Mario Salieri

Pietro Adamo Issue: Category: Invited Perspectives

by Pietro Adamo

In the twentieth century many historians, philosophers, psychologists, and sociologists have emphasized the relationship between sexuality and politics, giving in the meantime a new sense—much more political—to pornography and its historical developments. But pornography, especially after its almost worldwide legal legitimation (between Sixties and Eighties), seems to present a singular antinomy: on the one hand the various pornographic practices—writing, movies, live performances, photos—seem to enforce a liberationist ideology, aimed against traditional ways of looking to sexuality,

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7.Cosa resterà di questi anni porno? Fenomenologia della post-pornografia fra tv e Twitch

Bruno Surace Issue: Category: Invited Perspectives

by Bruno Surace

If the context of online cultures has definitively reshaped the way in which online content is produced and enjoyed, this also applies to mainstream pornography. This is rapidly passing (or has passed) from a “traditional” fruition context to a new “post-pornographic” structure, in which live streaming through webcams and one-to-one customized content replace the classic tube sites. These new pornographic dynamics, certainly consolidated in the pandemic context, take on a particular cultural relevance when they are subjected to processes of effective normalization of porn,

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8.Interview with Teresa Ciabatti: The Least Beloved, The Most Free

Marta Cerreti Issue: Category: Invited Perspectives

by Marta Cerreti

In January 2022, I met with Italian contemporary writer Teresa Ciabatti to discuss her latest works and her experience as a woman writer in a male-dominated industry. By drawing on Ciabatti’s best-known work La più amata (2017), the title of this interview addresses a common issue for women writers: they are welcome in the literary industry provided they follow the established rules. Since 2017, Teresa Ciabatti has continuously broken conventions,

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